This is very annoying, pathetic and barbaric case. Mpagi Edward
Edmary,an Ugandan taxi driver, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the brutal
murder of his neighbor that never was. But not only was Edward an innocent man,
there hadn’t even been a murder!
Edward had been framed after a land dispute between families in
the village got out of hand. Witnesses were bribed to
say they had seen him kill the man and dispose of the body.
He spent the next 20 years
in Kampala’s notorious Luzira prison and was only released when his family
proved that the dead man had been hiding out in another part of the country!
As Edward says, “In Uganda,
conditions for death row prisoners are cruel, degrading, and inhumane. We were
always denied medicines. There were lice, flies, and other vermin in the
prison, and this resulted in many illnesses – and many prisoners died from these
illnesses.
Life is terrible on death
row in Uganda, Africa. No one was ever given any notice that they would be
executed. Each time we were taken by complete surprise. We lived in complete
fear of any unusual activity from the wardens…..
BBC Story
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